UkraineAlert

SMS messages of live tweets, from reputable Ukrainian sources, made with JS and the Twilio and Twitter APIs.

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Inspiration

We found a tweet from a Ukrainian thanking a news page for their updates during this wartime (https://twitter.com/MVG_Charting/status/1497513162391887877). We wanted to expand on that and create a service from which Ukrainians could receive SMS news updates.

What it does

Allows users to sign up for an SMS service that gathers updates from tweets surrounding the Ukrainian crisis.

How we built it

HTML/CSS for front end, node.js for backend. Used Twilio API for SMS notifications and Twitter API for getting live tweets.

Challenges we ran into

Twilio API trial would only allow us to send to one phone number.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Applied a lot of skills from a lot of different areas to make a functional system.

What we learned

Teamwork and communication

What's next for UkraineAlert

Twilio sponsorship to leverage this to more users.

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